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I’m in the interior of B.C. and weather has been unusually nice. I noticed this morning that both my roses and blueberries are in bud. I’m choked, it’s the end of February and it’s usually -10 to -20. I’m pretty sure I’m going to lose both before winter is over. Sob.

I really doubt JLaw is going to be sliding down that slippery slope anytime soon!
I personally don’t smoke weed, but everything in moderation. Just because I’m going out for pizza tonight doesn’t mean I’m on the road to becoming morbidly obese.

Lol, if pizza-eating was a sign of over-weight then me, my family and every single person I know would be severely obese by now; one pizza per person once a week over here in Italy: like doctor’s orders!

As for the weed… I don’t know, I never understood the whole fascination; I also find (correct me if I’m wrong, please! I get my info from blogs and tv-shows) that the American/English culture tends to be more apologetic towards weed use than here in Italy/Europe?

I don’t know about Italy specifically, but I’m European and apart from had lived in different countries I also have colleagues from many different nationalities and I get the idea that smoking pot is pretty much accepted by a certain age group. I always get surprised at the amount of people that already did it or still do it, because it’s always easier to find people that already did it than ones that didn’t. My experience is more that people are not exactly shouting out loud about it.

For JLaw I agree with Amelia and I’m jealous of her very much deserved holidays!

I think you’re right about certain age groups, Minime. I live in the UK and I know quite a few people around my age (21) who take weed and have no issue with it. I also know people who don’t take weed and have no issue with others doing it. Usually it’s George Osbourne ‘tory types who subscribe to the Daily Mail who are vehemently against it and think it’s the first sign that our society is beginning to dissolve into ashes.
Me, I’m just wary of taking anything that messes with my persepctive. But I’ve got chronic nerve pain so mixing recreational drugs (even if it is just weed) with my pain meds isn’t really the best idea. Hell, I barely even drink!

If La Lohan was just a stoner, she would still have an acting career. Some of the most successful people I know are huge stoners. I’m tired of assumptions/ generalizations people make about marijuana. Educate yourself, the only reason the green stuff has a bad name is because of the pharmaceutical companies and the idiots who give other people who recreation-ally smoke a bad name.

I have a medical card and I think it is great. I don’t like taking pain killers because they make me nauseous and are highly addictive. Whenever I hint to people that I enjoy smoking they seem surprised and always say, you don’t act like a stoner.. That’s because the media created the “burnt ass, lazy, unproductive pothead,” which is a huge exaggeration of the effects weed has on people. It’s different for everyone, but I don’t understand how drinking and acting like a drunk a$$hole is socially acceptable, not to mention, people always get a pass when they get too drunk, but smoking herb is still taboo?

I swear, I would give anything if marijuana was represented differently. If society should worry about any drug being a gateway drug or threat, it should be alcohol, which is the only drug you can die from while withdrawing. I am sick of places saying their going to drug test you, but they’ll still employ a problem drinker. #a$$backwardssociety. /end rant

Yay for Holly and her placenta. I was going to have mine dehydrated into pill form but I didn’t have the money for it unfortunately. The cost was over $100. You don’t know want to know what I did instead… lol

Well part of it is still in my freezer, haha. I used parts of it in smoothies for a good while but then I got tired of smoothies. Placentas are massive! I have no idea what to do with the leftovers though so its just sat there for a few months.

She seems like she’s a micro girl, right? Higher standards and all. I love my microbrews and I love other microbrew girls more.

I assume she is, and the reason she’s drinking red wine is probably because in Hawaii the local micros are not great, especially if you like hoppy beer more than darks or pilsners (which they have an OK selection of). I love a nice red, too, though.

Close! An hour north in Fort Collins. What a coincidence, when I get off here in an hour I’m going to my favorite tap house. I’m in both Denver and Lakewood pretty frequently visiting friends, though. I know the area pretty well. Which is the brew house that is close to you?

Ha just echoing the “come to Colorado” statement – I often say to my friends here that there is NO reason to drink crappy beer or smoke crappy weed. If you do either, you’re either a tourist or just haven’t learned yet.

I like this young woman and wish her well and she has worked really hard and deserves a great vacation. But man, does she get away with stuff that others would be ripped for–not that pot smoking is news for someone her age and sometimes older folks too. Just object to double standards on general principle.

@nev Exactly how is she acting rhiannaesque? She is inside her hotel room smoking. She is not, like rihanna, posting pictures of weed on her instagram. Its a private space, she is not advertising it to the kids. If anything people should concerned that she is being pried on inside a private space. That really shouldnt be legal.

You’re not necessarily wrong. But when it comes to something like smoking up I don’t think anyone is that hard on celebs where it seems like an occasional thing. However, when you start to look and act like the stereotypical stoner (no names) or get back together with a guy who beat you half to death (again, no names) I can see a fair distinction in situations.

I think everyone is giving her a pass w/ the smoking because she works really hard & isn’t trying to be some hollywood princess – she seems very real and very appreciative for what she’s got. If she were some diva, yes, we would be irritated with her. But she deserves the break!

Double standards at its finest! If you love a certain celeb who’s caught smoking weed, then they’re more cool than ever. But if you hate certain celebs who do the same, then they’re disgusting drug addicts who deserve to be shamed publicly.

Thought as much with some on this site.

For the record, I don’t have a problem w. anyone who smokes weed. I just have a problem with double standards.

About the double standard – put it this way – if I were Anne Hathaway I’d be making me a J-Law voodoo doll right about now. It seems Anne can do no right and Jen can do no wrong. But that seems to be just the way things go when it comes to celebs, one is the “sweetheart” for a while, but eventually people it seems just get sick of them and find something, anything to hate them over, even if it’s just being “too nice, too good” or “too popular”. It will happen to Jennifer too, mark my words.

If Anne rolled herself a fatty in public I don’t think people on here would object to the pot itself but I think they’d be going “omg how staged are these photos!, obviously she’s trying hard to change her image to more layed back…NOT WORKING Anne, we all know you’re a try hard dork”.

In reality though, Jennifer’s image is likely just as carefully planned out and crafted, she just comes over as more self-consistent than Anne so therefore less “fake”.

@Annette Yup, that’s the cycle, isn’t it? Build up a celebrity then when the masses are fed up from overexposure of said celeb, somehow they’ll find ways to bring her down even. So sad but happens too often. As far as the double standards, if this was Anne smoking in the privacy of her hotel room in Hawaii, the backlash would be much more severe. She wouldn’t catch a break like Jennifer for sure. I like both girls, but yep, double standards.

In regards to KK, I really loved this gem :” The reality starlet shows no signs of slowing down. She hit up a day spa at the Peninsula Hotel for some relaxation before indulging in some serious shopping at Barneys”

The first time Riri smoked up in Hawaii everyone pretty much said the same thing…good for her, she works hard, has a lot to deal with, she deserves to relax. Now the 200th time of smoking out, wearing see through clothes to essentially be nude on public and general foolishness, yes she gets called out. I think most people think she should wake up and deal with reality instead of getting high all the time. If JLaw did this, trust that she would get called out too.

Hawaii grows some of the best weed in the world and has a long standing and entrenched MJ culture. I had a buddy who was friends with the family of an old and well known coffee company and he would stay with them annually . They had some extremely rare and interesting marijuana plants and really fascinating ways of growing them.

I’m sure someone on Jennifer’s staff acts as a go-between with the concierge at the hotel, which has an arrangement with a local dealer or two. You’d be surprised at the range of discreet connections a concierge will hook celebs/people with lots of money up with (not just weed, cocaine is probably popular too, as are prostitutes). Of course, I’m sure she ultimately ends up spending a lot more for a small amount of weed than one would just finding a dealer to do business with directly. But there are a lot of reasons a celebrity wouldn’t want to do that.

I can only imagine the yummy weed available in Hawaii. I’m in California and have a card so my searching for a dealer days have been over for a while.
Can’t even imagine having to look for weed elsewhere now but I don’t have a staffer to do it for me.

I saw him across a crowded Whole Foods deli one time…I couldn’t believe how hot he was. I really had to struggle not to stare or drool. He looked in my direction (we were opposite sides of the sandwich/deli area), and my heart jumped. I don’t think I have ever seen a man that hot in my entire life.

weird, I went to college with him, he taught me how to lift weights. He was incredibly nice and cool, very sweet. I remember he told me about his mom, she was Swedish or Swiss or something. Gorgeous sweet guy.

Please!
If young girls who see this decide to smoke a joint because JLaw does it then they’re morons and that’s not Jennifer’s fault.
I’ll admit it, it kinda disappointed me – even though some of my closest friends smoke and I’ve tried it before as well – but that’s just because I, like many others, idolize her.
We need to remind ourselves – she’s a 22-year-old PRIVATE PERSON. She didn’t invite the paps to take pictures of her, while hanging out with a girlfriend. Just because we see interviews of her and think we know her, doesn’t mean we have any right to meddle in her life.

@kay I agree to some extent. JLaw has made herself out to be some role model for young girls, especially with regards to body image. However, she’s in the privacy of her own hotel room and her privacy was breached by the paps. It’s not her fault and she shouldn’t have to apologize for what the paps did.

She’s never said to young girls go do weed, go smoke. She’s never publicly endorsed it, but she does it in private, so it’s not really her fault. Her brothers probably got it for her lol.

Does no one else find these papparazzi shots a little invasive of her privacy? I mean, she’s in a hotel room standing on a balcony and the angle of the pictures come from the side and above. Where would the photog be taking these from? Theu are almost so close you can see what’s laying on the bed for cripe sake! These celebs can never get a break from the constant snooping, sneaky eye of some hidden camera.

ITA – (and said so below!) It’s disgusting that they can literally see into her room. If she’s anything like me, I pretty much walk around a hotel room partially clothed (ok – naked). I would find that less than relaxing.

This girl has the life. Pretty,talented,an Oscar winner and gets to work in Hawaii on a franchise that will net her atleast 50 million by the time it’s over.Whatever deal she made with the devil I want it. Good for her.

No, actually, I am giving her a free pass, because who really gives a crap if she smokes weed. It’s her life. She has a right to make her own decisions. Nobody has a right to judge her on her actions. And if people do judge her they are just being self-righteous prudes.

@Kay this is a gossip site, not a freakin’ court, there’s a lot that celebs do that I don’t like but at the end of the day, an opinion is just an opinion, I have a poor opinion of lots of celebs and their life choices but what they do is their business.

I read from one of your numerous comments in this post that you live in an environment where drug use is not tolerated and can result in difficulty with getting a job – try to appreciate that people are a product of their life experiences, you are strongly against the use of weed because it isn’t legal in your state, others have a different view because it isn’t illegal and/or because they’ve grown to believe casual use of the drug doesn’t result in complete moral decay.

And yes, I do like Jennifer, I don’t smoke weed myself but I don’t believe that she needs to issue an apology to anyone. Not you, as righteous and upstanding as you are, not anyone. If she needs to issue an apology, so does Justin bieber, so do Miley, rihanna and Kristen.

@Kay, if we’re giving her a pass because we like her then obviously you’re riding her too hard because you dislike her.
I don’t expect her to apologize for living her life, making her own decisions and doing something that was not dangerous to other people.
Once again, teens worship celebrities much MUCH worse than Jennifer and if any of them smokes pot because Jennifer did, they’re fucking morons.

@Kay whatever Kay, it’s not like she’s a Disney starlet with a squeaky clean image, she’s not going to issue an apology solely because a single commenter wants her to. You’re taking this too seriously, Jennifer isn’t responsible for the actions of young people who will smoke weed. I was fourteen when Vanessa hudgens nude pictures were released and I idolised her up until that point, however, I didn’t (and haven’t til this day) sent nude pictures of myself to anyone. At school, I had lots of friends who smoked pot but I never did – people will do whatever they want to do and smoking pot does not mean you are suddenly a horrible person. You seem really angry about what she did – write an angry blog post or something.

I don’t care what she does, but I have to say I don’t get the appeal of pot. I know it’s fairly mild by drug standards (depending on THC levels), but even in small amounts it’s known to increase appetite and induce varying degrees of paranoia, and it makes you act loopy and smell like a skunk. Give me a couple glasses of good wine or a margarita any day.

Congrats on being such a rebel, but I wasn’t criticizing you for being in the minority. If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. I wish people like you would just say that instead of acting so superior, you know?

I was just saying, if there were no appeal, the usage wouldn’t be so widespread despite it’s illegality and people wouldn’t be pushing to reverse the laws.

Personally, I hate running but I do it because of the superior way it affects my body compared to any other cardio. However, occasionally I get the high you write of. I’m sure you’re glaringly aware though, it’s not the same thing by any stretch.

Lol I’m not a rebel by any stretch. I just don’t care what the majority does or doesn’t do. I was talking about why pot doesn’t appeal to me. Running, good music, being with my love, traveling and other activities I enjoy provide more than enough relaxation and ‘highs’ for me at this time. What anyone else does is their business. I think it should be legal and I recognise its medical uses.

The diverse opinions on marijuana use on this site is really interesting.

My opinion is that weed is a better alternative to alcohol. When you talk about gateway drugs, alcohol is more likely to lead to other opiate abuse because it is a depressive. Weed, while different for various people, pretty much relaxes you, and it’s really hard to abuse.

the alcohol vs weed as a gateway drug has been studied empirically, and also anecdotal evidence supports it as well.

plus! weed can be used to treat anxiety. again, it depends on the person and the strain, but it can help constant worriers. Weed can be prescribed to treat trichotillomania, which is the compulsion to pull out your hair, (which usually happens due to internalizing stress and/or depression). And trich, along with other impulse-control problems, is pretty hard to treat, so it’s good news for sufferers.

anyway. that’s my piece on weed. it’s really not as bad as some think and can be really helpful.

Exactly. There are over 400 known cannibanoids in MJ besides THC, and the medical uses for this plant have been well documented~until the “reefer madness” hysteria took over. Time for SERIOUS reform! Long since PAST time, in fact~

Sounds like you’re tired of her too. I really like her. She seems funny, but I’m soooooo sick of her being everywhere and the endless adoration and praise she’s received. She’s no Meryl. I wish people would stop saying that. She’s more on her way to becoming a Kate Winslet.

But you know what else, I’m just tired of all these white blonde blue eyed girls that get pulled from the masses to become the it girls and the “finest actress of her generation.” Girlfriend is talented, but her talent is so nauseatingly hyped that I’m just tired of her. She plays the game as much as Hathaway, she’s just way more subtle about it.

Hope Jen’s parents or her close friends have seen these pics and alerted her to the fact that those damn paps are lurking… she needs to be aware of this so she can be more careful while she is in her room.

Meh don’t care. But my stepbrother smokes almost daily and the dude is such a freaking moron. Don’t pick this stuff up if you’re not kind of smart or aren’t disciplined with its use at all. It’s become the only way he can relax and deal with his problems. My point. At least be emotionally healthy before you start doing drugs or drinking. Dude can’t study, he’s not doing well in school, all he does is smoke pot and drink with his friends. It’s a sad life.

This was my cousin. She went from decent student and high school track star to college dropout working dead end jobs and living with loser guys just to get by and have enough money to cover her habit.

I know for many it starts with alcohol, but for her it started with pot. It was widely available and her peers all had their medical marijuana cards. She used it to treat her legitimate anxiety issues, but it also led her to smoking pot laced with opiates and then other drugs. She had brushes with the law, trips to the emergency, and a few stays in rehab (thank goodness her parents have money) before finally getting her life in order in her late 20′s. This has nothing to do with JLaw, of course, but any drug can be the gateway if you are predisposed to addiction, even pot.

I don’t like either. I’m not a fan of drugs. I know my personality and I’ll slowly start to use them to avoid obstacles instead of dealing with them. I don’t drink, smoke, or really anything of the sort. If everyone else wants to do it, I don’t care. However, I am tired of people going on and on about the benefits of marijuana and the evil of alcohol. I’ve seen the damage both can do.

If all these things are going to be legalized, decriminalized, taxed, whatever, then I hope to god people teach their kids to be responsible drug users just as they try and teach their kids to be responsible drinkers.

Say what you want about the effects of weed, but regardless it does alter your state of mind. I don’t need stoned morons driving in the middle of the night to satisfy their munchies when I make my taco bell runs. What weed is to some of you people, taco bell churros are to me.

Good for her~its been a rough couple of months. Marijuana should at a minimum be decriminalized at the Federal level, and preferably legalized, taxed and regulated across the board. No more destroying peoples lives for a plant~

Good for her, she’s earned a little-or in this case, a whole lot-of relaxation

The fact that it’s 2012 and our world is in the current state it’s in but people still clutch their pearls in horror and demand apologies over responsible, functional adults smoking a little of the green stuff is so beyond me…I don’t smoke, but if I were a celeb and also on vacay on an island I might, and it certainly doesn’t bother me if other people want to!

does anyone else feel grossed out that we’re looking at pictures of her as she appears to have let her guard down? i felt creepy just looking at her be so unaware. sometimes this whole celeb watching gets to be a bit much i think.

She is 22. That is the time to light up and most people grow out of it. Although I could care less if people occasionally light up; I only wonder about the ones who are always smoking pot after a certain age.

That being said, she mystifies me. I really just understand how she became so popular or why she is so popular. She is just an okay actress and I personally find her rather generic looking when not all made up.

Jennifer has a cute smile but other than than, she is very plain looking. She only won the Oscar because of Harvey’s bribes and bullying. While she does have talent, her performance is one that Kate Winslet or Reese Witherspoon could have played in their sleep. Now that she is an Oscar winner, I forsee her privacy dwindling as paps will be following her everywhere, which is really unfortunate as celebrities are entitled to some privacy. As for her smoking a joint, maybe Charlize Theron gave it to her.

While you discuss and argue about illegal drugs I’ll tell something very true in my country where weed is illegal but there is a huge amount of people wanting to make it legal.
Drugs users are very protective of the drug dealers, they support in every way possible the crimes these people do. Drug users when committ crimes always put the blame on drugs just like drunk drivers who kill and blame the alcohol.
I’m not a drug user no matter it’s legality, I’m not a criminal. So I’m not a supporter.
People who do weed and other popular illegal drugs are not victims and people who do not support them should not help.
That’s why I love the health system in US, in my country the health system is public so the common citizen pay through taxes to help junkies.

Jennifer is just another idiot who do drugs for fun.
I think Kurt Cobain took too long time to find a better and faster way to kill himself. River Phoenix decided to make a show before dying of overdose because it was more glamorous. Weapon is better than drugs. If life is too hard for celebrities, why don’t these people try it instead of drugs? *Sarcasm*